It’s not clear to me that you get to the accuracy levels you need for driving in Manhattan simply by adding more data to these big data-driven systems. You might get to 99.99% accuracy, but if you do the numbers on that, that’s much worse than humans.
FOUNDER AND CEO, GEOMETRIC INTELLIGENCE (ACQUIRED BY UBER) PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND NEURAL SCIENCE, NYU
Gary Marcus was Founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company acquired by Uber, and is a professor of psychology and neural science at New York University, as well as the author and editor of several books, including The Future of the Brain and the bestseller Guitar Zero. Much of Gary’s research has focused on understanding how children learn and assimilate language. His current work is on how insights from the human mind can inform the field of artificial intelligence.
MARTIN FORD: You wrote a book, Kluge, about how the brain is an imperfect organ; presumably, then, you don’t think the...